March 22, 2005, Tuesday

President Bush appealed to a ballroom full of Roman Catholic voters on Tuesday in a speech to the Knights of Columbus and an array of the church's most powerful cardinals. Mr. Bush, whose audience included Cardinal Edward M. Egan, archbishop of...

Forty-eight Roman Catholic members of Congress who are Democrats have signed a letter to the cardinal archbishop of Washington, D.C., saying the threats by some bishops to deny communion to politicians who support abortion rights were ''deeply...

American Life League, an anti-abortion group, has started an advertising campaign criticizing Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, the archbishop of Washington, over his reluctance to deny Communion to Roman Catholic politicians who support abortion rights....

Members of Congress are used to being judged and graded by every organization from the Chamber of Commerce to the League of Conservation Voters. But some Democratic politicians say it is quite another matter to have their standing as Roman...

OVER the course of several hectic, pageant-filled days here last week, cardinals and journalists, pilgrims and politicians cataloged the many distinctions of Pope John Paul II. It was his 25th anniversary at the head of the Roman Catholic Church, and...

October 19, 2003, Sunday

As American Roman Catholic leaders announced tonight what measures they had taken to address the church's sexual abuse scandal, it had been expected that many if not all of the 12 cardinals who had met with the pope would be on hand. But in the end...

The American Roman Catholic cardinals who have been summoned to the Vatican this week for an extraordinary closed-door meeting on the sexual abuse crisis are men who have risen to the top not as innovators or entrepreneurs, but as loyalists,...

With uniformed postal guards standing at attention, the city's political and Roman Catholic leaders paid their respects today to the family and friends of Joseph P. Curseen Jr., the 47-year-old postal worker who died from anthrax on Monday morning. ...